Power pop is forever indebted to the exuberant sounds of British new wave group Squeeze. The band’s career (which is still raging on with original members and core songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn ...
When Squeeze released their landmark fourth album East Side Story in 1981, Rolling Stone declared, "In songwriters Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, the British New Wave has finally found its own John ...
Way back in the 1980s, the idea that large-scale pop could be intelligent animated a lot of New Wave music. In the United States during that era, a group as talented as The dB’s had trouble breaking ...
Musical pioneers Erykah Badu and James Poyser collaborated for a Record Store Day 2019 special, covering Squeeze’s “Tempted” and putting their own jazzy spin on the 1981 original. Ali Jackson, Derrick ...